Nobody.

When Jesus came into this world, He didn't come as a He, but only as an it. A tiny embryo that was destined to become a baby born in a manger in the middle of nowhere.

If there is ever a humble God, our God would be it. When His incarnation came to this world, he came alone. He grew up in Nazareth, which is a tiny village in the outskirts of Israel, where the lowly and very under-privileged lived. It was a ghetto, as his countrymen would put it, "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" He grew up with people with no power, no wealth, no rights, no existence.. himself being one of them.

God knew the meaning of humility when He sent Jesus to this world.. to live in it, and to save by it. Humility in Jesus is the best witness of God's Grace. Jesus came from the humblest background, he was a nobody. The only reason why he's famous is because he fulfilled God's plan for him. He was the lamb for the slaughter, and it was the slaughter that had been famous and the lamb because of it. Noone remembers Jesus' face, there aren't any portraits, he was just the lamb. Though he is God's son, he was just the lamb. A truly humble life doesn't shout "me" in its wake, it whispers "God", and that whisper creates just enough ripples for God to work with. Notice that there wasn't a remarkable 100% conversion after Christ's death, just ripples.
So.. what does it mean to be Christ's ripple? What does it mean to become a faintest shadow of a nobody? This troubled my mind this week as I realised that despite being one of the 8 billion people in this world, I still think I can become great in His plan for me. I still try to take credit for things, and I still hope to be recognised in the streets. I find it utmost frustrating when I still expect people to compliment me on my work, and be interested in it. Am I even ready to do this work? Am I ready to become a nobody? Am I ready to not be remembered, not be seen, not be stopped and talked to in the mall? Am I ready to not take any glory for myself? Am I ready to not ever receive compliments for "me" ever again?

I love my God, and so I know my answer to all those questions is a firm "yes". Because I don't want God's blessings to stop at just compliments from people, I don't want my life to shout "me" ever again, I want it to whisper "Jesus", over and over again. I want to be a ripple, I want to be a nobody. In the end, what matters most to me isn't whether someone will remember my face because of what I said about God, but to remember how God impacted their lives through some guy whose name wasn't important.

It gives me great peace to come to that conclusion, because I know that it's okay not to be remembered, it just means that I'm doing my job right as a ripple of Jesus.